A release from the Nebraska Department of Labor says Nebraska’s unemployment rate for January remains at 3%.
This represents a 0.1 percentage-point increase from the January 2025 unemployment rate of 2.9%.
The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for January 2026 is 4.3%, down 0.1 percentage points from the December 2025 unemployment rate and up 0.3% from the January 2025 unemployment rate.
In Southeast Nebraska the lowest unemployment rate was 2.6% in Richardson County. The highest jobless rate was in Johnson County at 4.1%.
Elsewhere the unemployment rates were 3.4% in Nemaha County, 3.3% in Pawnee County, 3% in Gage County and 3.2% in Otoe County.
